Should /opt/local/bin/perl be deleted too ?

Mark Gardner mjg at phoenixtrap.com
Thu Dec 20 09:52:48 PST 2007


On Dec 20, 2007 4:09 AM, Vincent Lefevre <vincent-opdarw at vinc17.org> wrote:
> On 2007-12-20 10:00:24 +0100, Anders F Björklund wrote:
> > http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/ticket/13641
> >
> > Perl 5.10.0 has now been released, so there are now two
> > stable port versions available: "perl5.8" and "perl5.10"
>
> Is there a need for two different ports?

There are some incompatible changes (see
http://search.cpan.org/~rgarcia/perl-5.10.0-RC2/pod/perl5100delta.pod#Incompatible_Changes),
so some might want to stick with 5.8.

FWIW, I started working on a 5.10 portfile last night based on Anders'
perl5.9-devel.


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